{"id":216355,"date":"2025-12-11T14:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T12:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-forbes-names-okonjo-iweala-mo-abudu-among-worlds-most-powerful-women-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T14:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T12:43:06","slug":"nigeria-forbes-names-okonjo-iweala-mo-abudu-among-worlds-most-powerful-women-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-forbes-names-okonjo-iweala-mo-abudu-among-worlds-most-powerful-women-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Forbes Names Okonjo-Iweala, Mo Abudu Among World&#8217;s Most Powerful Women 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Two prominent Nigerians, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Mo Abudu, have secured places on Forbes&#8217; 2025 ranking of the 100 World&#8217;s Most Powerful Women, underscoring their expanding global influence in trade, governance and media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">The annual list, released on Wednesday via the magazine&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/lists\/power-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a><\/strong>, spotlights women shaping decision-making across business, politics, culture and international leadership. Okonjo-Iweala and Abudu appear alongside notable figures such as European Commission President Ursula von&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512110343.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two prominent Nigerians, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Mo Abudu, have secured places on Forbes&#8217; 2025 ranking of the 100 World&#8217;s Most Powerful Women, underscoring their expanding global influence in trade, governance and media. The annual list, released on Wednesday via the magazine&#8217;s website, spotlights women shaping decision-making across business, politics, culture and international leadership. Okonjo-Iweala and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[1521,258,256,8700,14373,8650,257,4687,393,34376,21836,254,6524,7787],"class_list":["post-216355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abudu","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-among","tag-forbes","tag-names","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-okonjoiweala","tag-powerful","tag-south-africa-today","tag-women","tag-worlds"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}